Peltier Alice Mabel

A few years ago I wrote about my grandaunt Alice Mabel Peltier and my granduncle, also my 6^th cousin twice removed, Benjamin (Ben) LaBore.  Click here to take a look at that previous post.  Since then I have found more information on them that I think is interesting.

Ben, aside from his managerial farm duties and raising a family, was an integral part of the history of the Village of Dellwood. 

By 1918 Ben was the general farm manager of the George T. Slade farm in Dellwood where the LaBore family also resided.  The Village of Dellwood was incorporated on July 14, 1917.¹  On March 12, 1918, several months after incorporation, a special election was held where Ben was elected Justice of the Peace for the village, as was Frank Clewett.  They were the first in the incorporated Village of Dellwood to be elected to the position.  Ben was 34 years old.

The term for Justice of the Peace was set at 2 years.  In 1920, Ben was again elected to the position, but after being chosen he failed to qualify (he must not have posted bond or filed the oath of office in the specified time).^{3, 4}  However, in 1922 he was once again elected Justice of the Peace and did qualify.⁵

Not only did Ben serve 2 terms as Justice of the Peace, but he also, once or twice a year depending on the need, served as an election judge for special and primary elections.⁶  On election days there were generally 2 election judges responsible for the administration of election procedures.  Ben served as one of the two election judges for the Village of Dellwood from 1919 through 1928.  Payment for services provided ranged from $3.20 to $7.30 per day.

I was pleasantly surprised to find out about Ben’s involvement in his community.

The second piece of information I ran across was Alice’s original death certificate.  It is not unusual to find 2 or 3 versions of birth and death certificates for a person.  She was the second death certificate filed in the Village of Dellwood in 1933.  It is good practice to compare records, especially when they claim to be the same.

There are a few differences in the 2 death certificates, none of which are overly important, but none the less exist.  I’ll refer to the original one as the handwritten certificate and the transcribed one as the typed certificate

On the handwritten certificate below where it says “Division of Vital Statistics,” you’ll notice that the “Number in Registration book” is “2.”  That was not recorded on the typed certificate. 

On the next line down they give Alice’s place of death.  On the handwritten certificate it is “Stillwater Road, Dellwood” and on the typed certificate it is “Dellwood, Minn., White Bear Lake, R.F.D. #2.”  Respectively, similar information is given for the residence number on each certificate.  As far as addresses go, I would rather have the original handwritten certificate to look at.

Box #18 gives the place of burial.  For both certificates the information given is the same except for one small detail.  On the handwritten certificate “(Cremation—no, yes)” has been marked with the yes crossed out and on the typed certificate no marks were made.  Hence, I know from the original handwritten certificate that she was not cremated.  That fact is not present on the typed certificate.  

In terms of appearance, I find the typed certificate sloppy and the handwritten one, filled in by Alice’s doctor, Dr. A. E. Voges, as something that was done with both care and respect for Alice.  She was given the time she deserved; to Dr. Voges she was not just another piece of paper in the pile on his desk.

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Cynthia

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